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24 Jul 2020 / Australia
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is launching a focused inspection campaign targeting cargo securing arrangements on container ships visiting Australian ports.
This inspection campaign is being initiated in response to several serious incidents involving shipping containers lost overboard recently.
Incidents like the losses of 81 containers off Newcastle by the YM Efficiency in 2018, 50 containers off Wollongong by the APL England in May and three containers from the Navios Unite off Cape Leeuwin in June have caused significant environmental damage to Australia’s iconic marine and coastal environment. These events affect the livelihoods and safety of commercial fishers and, more broadly, communities across Australia
Incident investigations by AMSA have discovered that the improper stacking and securing of cargo and poor maintenance of securing equipment are likely to have been contributing factors to these incidents…
…The focused inspection campaign will run from the beginning of August until the end of October and will involve both extended port State control (PSC) inspections and stand-alone inspections on vessels which are not currently eligible for PSC inspection. If a cargo ship visits Australia over this period, the Master should expect that AMSA will visit the ship as part of this focused campaign.
Where vessels are found to be non-compliant AMSA will take steps to bring the ship into compliance before it is able to continue operating.
AMSA encourages ship owners and masters to familiarise themselves with the approved cargo securing manual for their vessel and Marine order 42 which gives effect to Chapter VI of SOLAS in Australia.
This focused inspection campaign is aimed at education, improving standards, and reducing the number of incidents that result in cargo being lost at sea.
More information can be found on AMSA’s website www.amsa.gov.au
(For information about operations in Australia, contact GAC Australia at [email protected])
Source: Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) news release dated 22 July 2020